Guild Wars 2

Could u tell me is any changes in rune preference this days?
PvE scolar> str> pack> flame legion/ ranger>rage/ ogre?
WvW ??? my knowledge is outdated. Now i run: celestial gear + bers trinkets, runes of vampirism, bers staff force/ energy.

Now i see a lot of Pack carriers in pve and wvw… But why?

Traveler runes droped in price 7g=>5g, pack rised 4g=>6g, intrand schlar about 4g, rune of vampirism rised alot…

All pve guides say do scholar. Demand of this runes dont rise, becouse the price is old. Am i wrong?

Suggest me pls what rune set to choose for full bers (celestial) staff ele in pve (wvw/ pvp).

Have a nice day !

ps sry for my eng

For a cele armor, i recommand hoelbrak, since you can use it for DD roaming.

The best rune for staff is strengh tho.
Pack is more for necros since they’re grouped with the melee train. Ele has a good acces to fury and that’s the main reason this rune is taken (well it has good stats too).

Strengh or Pack, you chose, but if you plan pve too, strengh is better
(and as i said, as a pro DD-ele, celestial hoelbrak is nice for this gameplay, so if you plan on crafting a zerker armor, put hoelbrak while waiting for your zerk armor)

I don’t play Ele in WvW so I won’t speak about that. For PvE

Scholar > Legion/Strength/Pack/Rage

Ranger Rune isn’t working with mini anymore.

Legion/Strength/Pack/Rage all have around the same dps.

- Strength is better only for S/X and D/F build. For Staff is equal to the other
- Pack is only on the level in solo situation. In group, not worth it.

thx for answers!

I didn’t now about ranger — minis.

I’ll try hoelbrak(or Traveler 25% speed is too awsm) + celestial, scholar + bers.

bulauchenka.5382:

thx for answers!

I didn’t now about ranger — minis.

I’ll try hoelbrak(or Traveler 25% speed is too awsm) + celestial, scholar + bers.

I don’t think you get much use of trav runes on ele, as long as you spec info air, you get 25% speed anytime you are in air.

Jayden Ennok.3687:

bulauchenka.5382:

thx for answers!

I didn’t now about ranger — minis.

I’ll try hoelbrak(or Traveler 25% speed is too awsm) + celestial, scholar + bers.

I don’t think you get much use of trav runes on ele, as long as you spec info air, you get 25% speed anytime you are in air.

Plus Eles have a good uptime of Swiftness

Jayden, but 25% only in air. In real combats air not so good as water/eath in defence and fire in offence. To travel from point A to point B its ok, to retreat = death

maddoctor, staff ele in meta has no uptime. Air4 not uptime.

bulauchenka.5382:

maddoctor, staff ele in meta has no uptime. Air4 not uptime.

Arcane Brilliance + Arcane Blast + Eruption are all blast finishers use them on Static Field and you get swiftness. When roaming and before engaging in a fight you can use the Glyph heal for some extra swiftness.

Actually Glyph + Air4 + Air5 blasted with Arcane Blast = near permanent Swiftness.

Strength runes cover all bases for pvp, pve and WvW although if you have more than one armour set, you should probably go for Scholar and Pack runes too.

Traveler runes aren’t that great. The power of the strength runes is really a lot better than that little speed boost. If your opponent has you under so much pressure that you can’t find a quarter of a second to cast air 4, you’re probably going to die anyway. Since without the air trait line, you have no burst or anything on staff air spells, you’re not really losing out on much offensive pressure of your own in that time. As Maddoctor says, there’s not really much cause to say we ele’s have no swiftness in combat.

I use the glyph for swiftness. Depending on trais you could even trait for glyphs which will result in permaswiftness. But i guess nearly no one will trait for glyps with tempest defence or aeromancers training as options. You could also pick swiftness + furry on auras.

maddoctor, yap u are right. My fault, forgot about fields.

Yak, not clear how many sets i need. I have only 2 ascended light armour sets: bers, cele. Have i craft more ( for str runes, pack, scholar = 3 sets)? what stat for sets? Armour set: 500+ gold and infusions 5stat/AR

Yesterday sloted scholar runes in bers for PvE, its nice.

I’d say 2 or 3 sets (when I include the cele for wvw).

In pve I have 2 sets – zerk with scholar and zerk with strength. I use the scholar set in parties that stack might well even without me adding much, usually if there is another s /d/f ele. PS warr is nice for might during fight but it’s really nice to have 25 might right from the start so if I am the only ele there, I switch to strength rune set. Having scholar only is okay but you’ll come across people that will want you to prestack and the might won’t last without strenght runes. Strenght is more versatile, scholar is dmg beast.

For cele in wvw I’d go with strenght runes but personally I just use my scholar set if I run with staff or strenght set if D/D (I have weakness for kamikadze builds). I used to slot speed signet if running from one side of the map to another, now with 25% in air trait line I don’t need to. In combat, unless you roam completely alone, you probably won’t need to generate much swiftness as there is so much of it randomly thrown around if you are in a party.

bulauchenka.5382:

maddoctor, staff ele in meta has no uptime. Air4 not uptime.

I can stack over 1 minute of swiftness with just air 4, air 5, eath 2 and Elemental Attunement.

Traveller Runes are a waste in the vast majority (if not all) of Ele builds currently.